Bio - from Frontex brochure

June 2015

Presenter:

Dmitry Gorodnichy, Senior Research Scientist, Advanced Analytics Unit, Science and Engineering Directorate, Canada Border Services Agency.

Bio:

Dmitry Gorodnichy started his career as a scientist with the Government of Canada in 2000, when he joined the National Research Council of Canada to work on the Canadarm project and where he established and led the project on developing Video Recognition Systems. This project produced a number of technologies licensed to Canadian companies, and brought international recognition to his work, specifically in the area of face recognition in video, video analytics and intelligent vision interfaces. One the technologies that he developed is currently

used by people with disabilities approved by the Ministry of Health and Long-Care of Ontario.

In 2008 he was invited to join the Science and Engineering Directorate of the Canada Border Services Agency to help to establish the in-house research capacity for the growing needs of the agency in the field of biometrics and video surveillance, which he did, serving as the manager for the newly created section until 2013 and leading a number of government projects and initiatives, including large-scale performance evaluation of Nexus iris biometrics, TRL assessment of video analytic and face recognition in video, and recently the analysis of risks and trends in automated border control.

He is the author of several patents and over a hundred of scientific papers, editor of Special Issue of Image and Vision Computing journal on Face Processing in Video Sequences; He also served as program chair for Canadian Conference of Computer and Robot Vision, the IEEE International workshops on Face Processing in Video, and Canadian inter-departmental workshops on Video Technology for National Security.

He holds PhD in Computer Science from University of Alberta, PhD in Cybernetics from Ukrainian Ac.Sc. in Kiev, and M.Sc. (With Distinction) from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; He is the recipient of the Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award from the National Research Council of Canada, the Young Investigator Award from the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society, and was nominated the ``Leader of Tomorrow'' by the Canadian Royal Society Academy.